{"slug": "powhatan", "label": "Powhatan", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powhatan", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q49291", "qid": "Q49291", "description": "Virginia Indian confederation of tribes", "entries": 7, "years": 6, "span": [1607, 1644], "span_label": ["1607 CE", "1644 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 2}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 2}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 2}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "pocahontas", "label": "Pocahontas", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "john-rolfe", "label": "John Rolfe", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "jamestown-virginia", "label": "Jamestown, Virginia", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "native-americans-in-the-united-states", "label": "Native Americans in the United States", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "james-vi-and-i", "label": "James VI and I", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "algonquian-peoples", "label": "Algonquian peoples", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "john-smith-explorer", "label": "John Smith (explorer)", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1607, "year_label": "1607 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "May 15", "text": "May 15 – From Jamestown, Christopher Newport, George Percy, Gabriel Archer and others travel six days exploring along the James River up to the falls and Powhatan's village.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1358831090#April–June", "title": "1607", "revid": 1358831090, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1608, "year_label": "1608 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "January 11", "text": "January 11 – John Smith is released by Powhatan after 15 days of captivity, and arrives back at Jamestown the next day. Upon his return, instead of being welcomed, he is charged with negligence for the deaths of the two men with him at the time of his capture, Jehu Robinson and Thomas Emery, but later exonerated.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1352783723#January–March", "title": "1608", "revid": 1352783723, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1614, "year_label": "1614 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "April 15", "text": "April 15 – Pocahontas, the 17-year-old daughter of Mamanatowick Wahunsenacawh of the Powhatan Algonquian native tribe in the modern-day U.S. state of Virginia, is forced into child marriage with English colonist John Rolfe at Jamestown, a year after her capture in war. She is given the name of Rebecca Rolfe and departs with John Rolfe to England in 1616, dying before she can return.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372816433#April–June", "title": "1614", "revid": 1372816433, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1616, "year_label": "1616 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "June 12", "text": "June 12 – Pocahontas (now Rebecca) arrives in England, with her husband, John Rolfe, their one-year-old son, Thomas Rolfe, her half-sister Matachanna (alias Cleopatra) and brother-in-law Tomocomo, the shaman also known as Uttamatomakkin (having set out in May). Ten Powhatan Indians are brought by Sir Thomas Dale, the colonial governor, at the request of the Virginia Company, as a fund-raising device. Dale, having been recalled under criticism, writes A True Relation of the State of Virginia, Left by Sir Thomas Dale, Knight, in May last, 1616, in a successful effort to redeem his leadership. Neither Pocahontas or Dale see Virginia again.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366307823#May–June", "title": "1616", "revid": 1366307823, "section": "Events › May–June"}}, {"year": 1617, "year_label": "1617 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "January 5", "text": "January 5 – Pocahontas and Tomocomo of the Powhatan Algonquian tribe, in the Virginia colony of America, meet King James I of England as his guests, at the Banqueting House at Whitehall.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367152520#January–March", "title": "1617", "revid": 1367152520, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1617, "year_label": "1617 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "March 21", "text": "March 21 – Pocahontas (Rebecka Rolfe), daughter of the Chief of the Powhatan Algonquian tribe in the English colony of Virginia and the wife of English colonist John Rolfe, dies of smallpox after an illness of three days contracted as the couple and their son were preparing to return to America. She is buried at Gravesend.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367152520#January–March", "title": "1617", "revid": 1367152520, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1644, "year_label": "1644 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "April 18", "text": "April 18 – Opchanacanough leads the Powhatan Indians in an unsuccessful uprising against the English at Jamestown. Although 300 of the English colonists are slain, the settlers pursue Opchanacanough, who is imprisoned in Jamestown for the rest of his life. This is the last such Indian rebellion in the region.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369560996#April–June", "title": "1644", "revid": 1369560996, "section": "Events › April–June"}}]}